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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
6
The document compares foreigner to native ratios and cites France and other regions. It states official Civil War records have cost $3,984,828 so far and project a final total near $3,000,000. It mentions a 26 volume collection priced at $26,786.
Official statistics show the United Statesusing more telephone stations than all European countries together. It may be inferred Americans are particularly strong on long distance conversations.
A fragment from a Iowa girl’s commencement address extols humanity and the vast world. The speaker ponders existence as a drop in the sea of life within the universe of nature, invoking awe at distant stars and the infinite.
The United States has a single federal penitentiary system with Fort Leavenworth serving as the only U S penitentiary. It is a transformed military prison built from quartermaster warehouses, enclosed by a wall and designed to hold about five hundred twenty five inmates.
The Ghicazo Tribune chides the idea of a three word four syllable city name for Greater New York calling it unwieldy and urges simplifying the appellation. It notes the charter designates the city as the City of New York and argues for a practical title.
A Springfield Republican stance urges readers not to stop honest papers for editorial views. It argues against rewarding insincerity by praising papers that placate readers and omit truth. The piece defends enterprise in journalism and warns against surrendering to biased reporting.
A large group of prominent Methodist laymen in India call a meeting on September 16 to press for greater lay representation in the General Conference. They argue laymen supply most church funds yet hold only one third of conference seats, while preachers control two thirds. They deem the current imbalance unjust and improper.
Eminent English statistician Mulhall reports 1850 to 1900 progress gaps. New England’s output rose about fivefold with wages up about five and a half times, reaching 320 dollars per inhabitant, versus Britain at 116 dollars. Banking deposits show New England twice Britain’s depositors and ten times the average deposits, with 150 dollars in one country and 18 in the other.
Fragmented poem tribute in the New York Sun praising seafaring explorers and pioneers. It lists Henry Hudson Champlain Marquette Joliet and other explorers, honoring their voyages and enduring journeys beyond known shores.
In a dramatic scene from the Free Press, Fred Trevor confronts past dreams and a hidden mountain romance. A dwindling relationship is revived when Miss Alden appears at a Cumberland mountain cabin, after Trevor learns his benefactor’s secret and a long awaited reunion becomes possible.
The article recounts a fortune built on the shark trade tied to Mme. Oliveros who has died in Paris. Her husband long dominated the shark business, hosting grand dinners praising the fish’s liver oil and varnish making uses. The estate reportedly totals two million dollars, earned largely from shark products.
A plan outlines building a one foot gauge railway in Central Africa from Ghiromo near the Rue River to Lantys near the Church of Scotland Station on Lake Nyassa. Estimated cost stands at 025,000 and construction would take about three years.
Curio items include a million dollars in silver weighing 66081 pounds and a Pattis Missouri resident never wearing overshoes a watch or a collar. Tales of age 188 in Russia and 118 in Sydney Smith's funeral sermon. Brazil’s luminous tree and a Dayton Oregon cherry tree bearing a ton of fruit. Quebec protests against floor-kissing punishment in schools. Emeralds rising in value in Europe and a new braille writer for the blind. Spanish bullfighting season stats and a planned 1898 Russian conference on Alceology. The Caucasus springs celebrated as Russia’s spa heritage for 100 years.
Secretary Wilson describes a nationwide push to promote sugar beet culture by distributing high quality seed to farmers and experiment stations. He notes ongoing tests in many states with emphasis on rare hereditary seed and coordinated bulletins, forecasts factory capital needs, and the link between farmer success and urban prosperity.
The article discusses growing watermelons with good underdrainage and pit digging, May planting, and manure use for drainage. It then describes sulfur smoke practices to treat lamb lungworms, detailing a method with a garner and hot coals to fumigate flocks, plus safety notes. It ends with a description of the Sultan breed of fancy fowl, its appearance, temperament, and eggs, noting they are kept as pets and are hardy yet hard to raise.
The article describes spreading poisoned mixture around fields to kill night feeding worms before plants are fed out. It also features a wheel mounted ladder for picking apples, noting it’s light and movable for gathering fruit using old buggy wheels.
The article notes a dispute between Edison and Tesla on sleep. Edison dismisses sleep as a bad habit, while Leblad argues sleep is vital, claiming that eighteen hours of sleep daily could extend life to 200 years. The piece highlights contrasting views from the two eminent electricians.
H B Weed of the Mississippi Experiment Station explains cutworm damage to crops like tomatoes cabbage and corn. He notes fall plowing sod land lowers future infestations and offers a homemade remedy using bran or corn meal mixed with paris green and sweeteners to kill worms.
The article explains that bee colonies vary greatly even within the same race and that breeders select stock to enhance desirable traits. It describes differences in honey gathering, swarming tendency, comb building, winter consumption, endurance, temperament, tongue length for clover gathering, and color. Breeders aim to raise drones and queens from the best colonies to improve apiaries, acknowledging hit and miss mating but noting rapid progress through stock selection.
The Boston Herald marvels at Maine being nearly the size of Ireland but with far fewer inhabitants in 1890. Maine covers vast territory much larger than Ireland yet has only about 661,000 people, a fraction of Ireland’s population.
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